"Asclepias" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A plant genus of the family ASCLEPIADACEAE. This is the true milkweed; APOCYNUM & EUPHORBIA hirta are rarely called milkweed. Asclepias asthmatica has been changed to TYLOPHORA.
| Descriptor ID |
D031108
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.940.800.575.912.250.456.500.153
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| Concept/Terms |
Asclepias- Asclepias
- Asclepia
- Milkweed, Common
- Common Milkweed
- Common Milkweeds
- Milkweeds, Common
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Asclepias" by people in Profiles.
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Species-specific, age-varying plant traits affect herbivore growth and survival. Ecology. 2020 07; 101(7):e03029.
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Seasonal windows of opportunity in milkweed-monarch interactions. Ecology. 2020 01; 101(1):e02880.
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Combining stochastic models with experiments to understand the dynamics of monarch butterfly colonization. Am Nat. 2005 Dec; 166(6):731-50.